Word: graybeards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of Protestants to pray for his country. National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER explained it this way: Washington "wants the Pope's visit to have a lasting effect." But no formal review of Cuba policy is under way, and no one expects John Paul to convert the communist graybeard to democracy and capitalism...
...Secretary of State, where his main job was to negotiate the intricate deal releasing U.S. hostages in Iran. Christopher has spent the past 12 years running a large Los Angeles-based law firm and has had to scramble to learn his current brief. Clinton picked him as a virtuous graybeard who looked the part and could work collegially with the rest of the national-security team, confident he could make up for Christopher's debits as leader and advocate...
Time Takes Time occupied a notable team of four top producers (Don Was, Jeff Lynne, Peter Asher and Phil Ramone), 14 songwriters (including Ringo) and such graybeard kibitzers as Brian Wilson (who provides a Morse-code background % vocal of dit dit dit-dits on the Diane Warren tune In a Heart Beat). Somehow it all coheres, perhaps because this musical militia wanted to honor the group that shaped their pop tastes, and to do it with the one Beatle who could take direction from them as he did from Lennon and McCartney...