If they did, the only sound action movie fans would hear as they staggered out of the theater would be the ringing in their ears.

如果他们这样做，影迷们走出影院时，唯一能听见的声音只有自己耳朵的嗡嗡作响。

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We also concluded that meetings have turned into theater since the advent of PowerPoint, and that the real action is moving elsewhere.

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Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters' one-room flat as "a very narrow strip of plain hell, " they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater's stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place.

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