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When Katharine McPhee was heading towards her number-two finish on the 2006 American Idol season -- and singing "Over the Rainbow" with full-blast passion at least twice -- it was as obvious as her Boston Conservatory past that the incipient diva's true destination was not pop-charts prominence but Broadway.

David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is David Finkle 2012

With this in mind, I cannot begin to imagine getting so drunk that I passed out on the opposite end of the house from my baby's room, and with a fan going full-blast to block-out noise, as Bradley reportedly did.

Cilla McCain: Baby Lisa's Disappearance: A Perfect Storm for a Tragic Crime? Cilla McCain 2011

In the final minutes of her first Supreme Court term, Justice Elena Kagan delivered a full-blast dissent, using pointed, colloquial, sometimes sarcastic language rarely seen from the court's liberal minority to lacerate the conservative majority in a campaign-finance case.

Kagan Gives New Life to Court's Liberal Wing Jess Bravin 2011

Well, there's the entrenched masochism that we seem to prefer, stemming from the built-in bias against anything that's not full-blast production mode.

The Key to Happiness: A Taboo for Adults? Joe Robinson 2011

In the final minutes of her first Supreme Court term, Justice Elena Kagan delivered a full-blast dissent, using pointed, colloquial, sometimes sarcastic language rarely seen from the court's liberal minority to lacerate the conservative majority in a campaign-finance case.

Kagan Gives New Life to Court's Liberal Wing Jess Bravin 2011

When Katharine McPhee was heading towards her number-two finish on the 2006 American Idol season -- and singing "Over the Rainbow" with full-blast passion at least twice -- it was as obvious as her Boston Conservatory past that the incipient diva's true destination was not pop-charts prominence but Broadway.

David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is David Finkle 2012

Desmond had just arrived stag at a full-blast loft party way downtown in what is now the elegant and trendy neighborhood of Soho/TriBeCa.

Binky Philips: Seeing and Not Seeing Jimi Hendrix Binky Philips 2011

Desmond had just arrived stag at a full-blast loft party way downtown in what is now the elegant and trendy neighborhood of Soho/TriBeCa.

Binky Philips: Seeing and Not Seeing Jimi Hendrix Binky Philips 2011

It's a stop-and-go drive with the air-conditioning on full-blast as cars, delivery trucks, buses and motorbikes jostle and honk along narrow roads built in the 1980s, when Bali was still mainly a backpacker and budget destination.

Trouble in Paradise Joe Cochrane 2011

Palestine himself, in his wild day-glo outfit and Panama hat would leave the organ in full-blast to wander around the church and appreciate the sound himself at times.

Walls of Sound 2009