The lead characters' moral perfection is offset, sometimes hilariously, by the assortment of men and women played by Ms. Funk and Mr. Sanyal.
Following his historical trilogy, Roddy Doyle returns to contemporary Dublin with Bullfighting (Jonathan Cape), a story collection in which an assortment of men face up to middle age, disillusionment and the death of the Celtic tiger.
Which is more than you can say for his final novel, "Theophilus North," in which a young man, working over the summer as a tennis instructor in Newport, Rhode Island — scene of Wilder's First World War service — handily solves the problems, practical and emotional, of an assortment of men and women he encounters there.
The film introduces an international assortment of men who spend hours competing against one another in IL-2 Sturmovik, but it doesn't really tell us enough about them to let us distinguish one from another or to become absorbed by the fake battle they are fighting.
SHOPPING When the going gets tough, anyone devoted to "Mad Men" could go to a Banana Republic store or bananarepublic.com, where they could browse an assortment of men's and women's clothing based on the wardrobes of the characters on "Mad Men".
The lineup consists of Justin Turner, Corey Seager and an assortment of men merely carrying bats to the plate.
The store will emphasis the sale of children's athletic shoes and a full assortment of men's, women's, and children's running shoes and accessories.
On Saturday, the usual assortment of elderly men in Panama hats and baseball caps and younger men in shorts and T-shirts gathered at an OTB on the Upper West Side that is squeezed between a cupcake shop and a Latin-Chinese restaurant.
In Atlanta, an assortment of militia men brandishing assault rifles, supporters of President Trump waving American flags and men's rights activists wearing helmets descended on Piedmont Park, a leafy oasis in the city's affluent, liberal Midtown neighborhood.
