livingroomful

A whole livingroomful will be able to see the picture for that charge.

1953 November 27, Bob Thomas, “Movie Comeback Hopes Pinned On Pay-See TV”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CXVII, Hartford, Conn., page nineteen

The TV audience stayed away by the livingroomful.

1956 December 9, Harry Harris, “Screening TV: ‘Culture’ Role for Critics”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 255, number 162, Triangle Publications, page 14 C

Vanessa officiated in curlers and dirty dressing gown and slippers every Wednesday in her $150,000 mansion north of Sunset, for a livingroomful of Hollywood characters, hopefuls, starlets, and (we were always told) Famous Producers.

1974, Rachel Rosenthal, “Excerpts from “Rachel Rosenthal” (1974)”, in Moira Roth, editor, Rachel Rosenthal, Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 150

A livingroomful of some thirty zippies of slightly different mien from those at the Bob/Rex go—more hardcore activist, most of them, on the WRL (War Registers League) barricades, hence less romantic in the day-to-day tactics for winning America (WRL seldom uses the Kafkaesque “k”) back to the ways-days of peace, back to the Declaration—Bill of Rights.

1977, Sidney Bernard, Witnessing: The Seventies, New York, N.Y.: Horizon Press, →ISBN, page 100

“I had a whole livingroomful of people in to see it,” he said, “but it was just awful.[…]”

1978 February 20, Maryanne Conheim, “Profile: A career chilled by caviar”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 298, number 51, page 1-D