"I used to see that bright beacon flashing across the water, even through the fog, and I used to hear that wailing foghorn from three miles away," said Mike Vegessi, who has been fishing the waters around Montauk Point for more than 25 years.
If Paparazzi cemented Gaga's status, then the imperious Bad Romance – about falling in love with your best friend – built a tower on the top with a beacon flashing the message: "It doesn't get better than this!" A techno-inspired, electropop juggernaut, Bad Romance was written on a tour bus somewhere in Norway with regular collaborator RedOne.
She becomes confirmed in her self-opinion as an irredeemable outsider, appalled by the predatory "heifer-sized" males, their faces "covered in smeared lipstick as if they'd been devouring raw meat", and the girls, "exuding 'personality' like a lighthouse beacon flashing light".
Your activity updates are like a beacon of flashing information disseminated out across your network;– as it's not only your contacts that see this but their contacts too".
They argue that powerful beams of neutrinos could be used to turn entire stars into flashing beacons, broadcasting information across the galaxy.
I declined; dinner for one in the honeymoon suite would be like pointing 20 flashing beacons at my post 30 single status.
The idea of the fun, playground-style workplace is synonymous with Google – its offices flashing beacons of colour in the otherwise drab world of work, sporting indoor ski-lifts, tropical jungle huts and slides between floors.
With the dump washed away temporarily, they transformed into flashing beacons.
"For him to be running electricity and flashing beacons is kind of amazing," said Katie Braun, a pilot and flight instructor who came to see the airplane home after learning about it in 2012.
They might choose to use funds to build a play structure in a local park, or install flashing beacons on crosswalks to protect pedestrians, or pay for additional police patrol on weekends, or add new books to a local library, or support a gang-prevention program at their local community center.
