Each had changed his sport in a way that provided a handy metaphor for developments in society: civil rights protests and opposition to the Vietnam war (Ali), the baby-boomers' drive for self-expression and freedom from archaic restrictions (Cruyff), the monetisation of leisure activities in a time of peace and prosperity for the white bourgeoisie (Palmer).
He noted that one of the founders of embryology, Karl Ernst von Baer, thought that music was an excellent metaphor for embryonic development.
The blob may turn out to be more significant as a metaphor for this development -- a logo for risk -- than for the formal qualities of blob designs.
A hurtling train is a metaphor for runaway development that is generating its share of collapsing buildings, lethal coal mines and bulldozed neighbourhoods.
One could look at Les Quatre cent coups as both a film about adolescence as well as a metaphor for rocky development of an art form.
Is this a visual metaphor for his policy development or just a coincidence?
"An airport", says one of its managers proudly, "is a city's visiting card".It is not too fanciful to see the contrasting parts of Yekaterinburg's airport as a metaphor for the city's development.
Case studies are presented from six different applications – a Virtual Factory simulation, Rail simulation, development of visual interaction metaphors for design visualisation, development of collaboration technologies to support industrial decision-making, representation of material properties in Virtual Environments (VE), and development of speech interaction for VR.
Since the successful economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore were described as the Four Asian Tigers, a tiger economy is a metaphor for a nation in rapid development.
The Riviera's focal point, midway between Cancún and Tulum, is the town of Playa del Carmen, known generally as Playa, and a metaphor for this region's recent, explosive development.
