The intense, surrealistic performance led to his role in 1988 as the unwitting target of a futuristic dictatorship's paranoia in Gustavo Mosquera's Lo que vendrá (The Near Future).

In the 1990's, the unwitting targets of such gallows humor could well be surgeons, hospital workers, health-insurance brokers and pharmaceutical researchers.

For decades, astronomers, geologists and planetary scientists have hypothesized about the rate of terrestrial bombardment, with the Earth seen as an unwitting target in a cosmic shooting gallery.

She could hear other impacts across the side of her chair and even the bulkhead at the back of the bridge as debris from the explosion searched for unwitting targets.

So hard to tell. . . "I have old and very personal reasons to particularly dislike being made the unwitting target of persons of cruel humor.

Bilson's fashions and sense of style made her the unwitting target of the Bling Ring, who burglarized her home on several occasions.

Unfortunately, her house is across the park and has been the deliberate or unwitting target of numerous tresspasses, and the cause of a number of puzzles for Hawkeye and Amy.

Later that same Sunday, the unwitting target of Deborah's increasing wrath was in Geneva facing the representatives of the world's oil producers.

The new system's high rate of discovery implies, however, that many more unknown objects zip through the void, scientists say, making the Earth an unwitting target in a cosmic shooting gallery.

"We wanted to take a proactive approach," Mayor Bill LeFew said, adding that local officials hoped to prevent residents from becoming unwitting targets by wearing the wrong symbol or color in the wrong neighborhood.