Word: leyner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I got this and I saw, 'Who is the Person of the Millennium/Century,' I thought we had been nominated," Leyner said, prompting audience guffaws...
...Leyner, for all his comedic flair, chose the only explicitly evil person of the evening: Adolf Hitler...
...choosing Hitler as my millennium figure because in a personal sense...as an impresario of evil, he cut my daughter's century from her millennium by destroying the Polish Jews, the central European Jews," Leyner said. "This individual created a temporal schism for a lot of people. There's no returning to what was destroyed...
...Leyner also picked a figure of the century--the fictional Joseph K. from Franz Katka's The Trial who is accused of a crime he cannot comprehend...
...Leyner elicited laughter when he raised the antithesis of the night's question...