With his cultivated
air of nonchalance, the trivialized, consequence - free violence and reverse - engineering
of a plot threaded with convenient twists and unexpected arrivals, Wheatley seems intent upon lowering the stakes
at every opportunity.
It doesn't seem so, and in some ways the entire week felt like a gigantic exercise in expectation management: Crossed Arms, Legitimate Constraints & Fidgeting Phone Use The exercise began
at the opening ceremony, where body language seemed to reveal the subtext
of the speeches: From Tony Blair's
nonchalance and statements on how establishing a path was more important that specific targets, to Todd Stern's crossed arms and not - so - thinly veiled reference to «legitimate constraints» in US politics, to India's environment minister seemingly frustrated by it all,
at times resting his head on his hands or fiddling with his Blackberry, all with an
air of «nothing important is going to happen here», what wasn't verbalized was as important as what was.