Altogether, the crowd applauded the 12 winners of the foundation's Knight News Challenge (KNC), an ambitious, generous contest (this year's grantees received a total sum of $2.74 million) that awards innovative journalism projects.
While he has made no projects that approach that sitcom's inventiveness or hilarity, Larry David, who created the show with him and wrote many of its best and most ambitious episodes ("The Contest," "The Puffy Shirt," "The Finale"), built another classic comedy, "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
The second involves a contest among ambitious Republicans to support the boldest immigration reforms.
Morrison continued, "And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, 'We love the status quo.' " Of course, all ambitious artists come up contesting a status quo that has yet to acknowledge them; and bad art can be plenty political, too.
She's married to the "Elvis of Butter", carving whiz Bob (Ty Burrell), who for 15 years has reigned supreme at the town's annual contest with his ambitious tableaux, including the Last Supper and Schindler's List.
In PC terms FDR's New Deal represented a decade of contest between an ambitious public sector and a dazed private sector.
Nevertheless, the then-junior draughtsman for architecture firm Honeyman and Keppie won the contest with his ambitious design.
"Scandal" is soapy enough for their battle to feel like emotional theater, but it's also an authentic contest between two ambitious individuals.
Ambitious people feel competition.
Will the ones you get be feeling particularly ambitious on the day of your contest?
