The work, "Shift," commissioned by an art collector in 1970, consists of a series of low concrete wall-like structures that zig-zag along the shifting elevations of the field, delineating the shifts to someone walking along them.
The friends, ranging in age from their mid-60s to early 80s, usually alternated among three restaurants (Aqua Grill and Union Square Cafe were the others), and rarely ventured elsewhere, especially a noisy venue where Mr. Koch, bereft of his hearing aid, would tune out and even doze off as he was known to do when the subject shifted to someone else.
Lee rode out to meet the survivors, repeatedly accepting blame without trying to shift any to someone else.
When something goes wrong, those identified with the failure fade for a time and the attention of Tea Party-identified voters shifts smoothly to someone else.
I'm sorry we have to shift this one to someone else.
The nation will be ill served if officials who didn't do all they could to prevent a terrorist attack, or led the nation into an unnecessary war, manage to shift the blame to someone else.
Mr. Karadzic addressed the question of responsibility, saying, "I don't want to defend myself by saying I wasn't important, nor will I shift the blame to someone else".
"As with any religious accommodation of this kind," Mr Lederman writes, "the whole point of the accommodation is that the opting out by the objector would shift the responsibility to someone else (whether a state actor or, as here, another private party) to do what the religious objector declines to do".
As routine displaces novelty, we may be tempted to shift our attention to someone new and taste again the thrill of romantic love.
Faced with the prospect of execution, anybody would be tempted to lie and shift the blame to someone else if that's what it takes to stay alive.
