Benatar and Belinda Carlisle, lead singer of the Go-Go's, are such perfect mirror images it's almost cartoonish: New York versus Los Angeles, musical theater versus punk, eyes-on-the-prize ambition versus cocaine-driven excess.
I think career and ambition are prized too much in our culture.
Mosse says she is "absolutely confident" a new sponsor will be in place by 2014 – but she doesn't know who that might be, or where the prize's ambitions for international expansion are most likely to be realised.
Mary Jane may be a Strong Black Woman who raised herself up out of a family where ambition is still not prized, and continues to fight racism and sexism, but she's also a bit of a pill.
The Valley prizes overweening ambition but expects it to be "rifle-focussed" on making the world's best houseboat-rental platform or Cognac-delivery service.
If there were a prize for sheer ambition, it would justly go to "Time Regained".
With the Man Group on board, the prize rediscovered its ambition – and that was where the trouble started.
"Natural Selection" has some funny jokes, and it handily takes the festival prize for sheer ambition in its desire to envision where various pernicious cultural trends will lead us, but as serious topical satire, it is mostly obvious and jejune.
The verdict was encouraging and soon Hockridge was winning prizes for singing but his ambitions were curtailed by the outbreak of the second world war.
This is a report from the frontier of cosmic thought, as fresh as last month's Nobel Prizes, uncompromising in its intellectual ambitions and discerning in its choice of compelling scientific issues.
She said 18 companies had come forward and she had spent six weeks in meetings with potential sponsors "listening to their ambitions for the prize".
