As Mr Menoret discovers, their peculiar blend of motorised daredevilry, Bedouin gallantry, joyful homoeroticism and petty criminality is more than a product of boredom, testosterone and cheap petrol.
John Gannon, a CIA analyst who has just moved to the private sector, says that he has fired more people in the past eight months than during his entire career in the service.Yet daredevilry has never been more needed.
"Let us clear out of the way any romantic notions of daredevilry," the judge said.
Can't you just chill out?" Fallon asked Cruise about his latest daredevilry and his well-documented insistence that he perform nearly all of his own stunts.
David Blaine has become best known for what he calls "endurance art," genuine, ungaffed daredevilry: standing on a pole for thirty-five hours, living in a water-filled plastic bubble or encased in ice.
The evolution of the X Games, in the past decade, from impressive tricks to outright daredevilry can be traced, in large part, to Hoffman's outsized dreaming as a teen-ager in Oklahoma, in the late nineteen-eighties.
Pearce — the only snowboarder who has matched White's daredevilry — was training for the Olympics in Park City last month, when, after attempting a difficult trick, his board caught the lip of the halfpipe, and he was knocked unconscious after slamming his head into the ice.
Roman Signer contributes absurdist daredevilry (documented in a video) involving explosives, an office chair, and a hat, while Julia Scher's twelve marble dogs look sombrely on.
Still, the domesticated portraits do nothing to hide the daredevilry of the photographers here, like George Miller Dyott (Slide 15), a British explorer who led an Amazon expedition in 1926 and wrote about it in The Times.
Like a one-man football training camp, he emerges twice a day to walk the wire, just a few blocks from the falls and across the street from a minimart that doubles as daredevilry museum.
But the daredevilry that Cashman enjoys will have to wait.
