The annual Dubious Achievement Awards celebrate 1998 as the worst year ever: Linda Tripp wins the Man of the Year title over Leonardo DiCaprio, Osama Bin Laden, Lucianne Goldberg, Ken Starr, and others.
The Man of the Year title was won by Linda Tripp in the year 1998.
Yes, in Keats' poems, life has a dreamy quality--but this is not a gorgeous swoon so much as the sense that somewhere, out of sight, we have already lived our actual lives, and that the life we are forced to feel through now is a posthumous remembrance of that earlier life, full of pain and loss.