BE and V.

[Michael Bailey]

Robin tossed this out, I'm going to grab it and try for the first down...
well, even hippie pacifists may have enjoyed a game of touch football in
the green and verdant days of youth...

V. - outsider viewpoint
Partridge in a pear tree parable, tree growing nourished by partridge
droppings, bird eating pears grows too fat to fly away, tree grows toward
some sharp thing that will eventually impale the bird...
Focus on the young and aimless BP and the  dubiously purposeful middleaged
SS...so with 2 foci, it might be an ellipse...
Anti-marijuana stance, although only mentioned very briefly
Jazz music
Conspiracy theories gently nudged aside by Eigenvalue, no cabal, only
random caries
Jump cuts through time and space
BE - insider viewpoint
Pear tree depicted realistically inviting admiration.  Islands of
mountainous trash depicted realistically with real threatened wildlife. No
parables, afaict.
Focus on the mature but youthful Maxine, who embraces, well, various
experiences but can also act purposefully
Clouds of marijuana smoke around the scenes of creativity taking place
Karaoke music
Conspiracy theories gently acknowledged but placed in a perspective that
doesn't give them overweening importance
Not quite Aristotelian unities, but all in NYC in the same twelvemonth
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