"Because solitary confinement happens out of public view, we don't normally confront the reality of it," she said.
Widely recognized as a social problem in Japan, kodokushi (solitary death) stereotypically happens when old people living alone, detached from kin and neighbors, die alone without being noticed immediately, leaving the body to decompose.
But whereas Disney was primarily an impresario and an empire builder, the Henry Ford of fantasy, Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991 at the age of 87, conformed to a different American archetype: the solitary genius who happens, almost in spite of himself, to be a canny entrepreneur.
Not only that, almost half of suicides in federal penitentiaries happened in solitary, according to a 2014 report.
As Klinenberg and others have shown, this is especially likely to happen to solitary middle-aged men, who are more likely to lack the drive and the social facilities to go out and make their own friendship circles.
Instead, England opted for the more experienced Monty Panesar in the second party, presumably because he could come into the side as the team's solitary spinner if anything happened to Graeme Swann.
In movies, solitary confinement is what happens to prisoners who shank someone in the dining hall or attack a prison guard.
Whatever else happens in the solitary race against the clock, he will not pretend beforehand to be ailing.
No one knows what happened to the solitary man who stood before the tanks of Tiananmen Square, but his image, taken by Jeff Widener, broadcasted the brutal massacre by the Chinese army.
The question is whether this solitary confinement change would have happened without the pending federal lawsuit looming over city officials' heads.
Two solitary artists, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinksy, happen separately upon plans to do something unexpected and unique.
