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The major Italian guidebook to Rome soberly claims that this building has been nicknamed Il Colosseo Quadrato , `The Square Colosseum.
After World War II it was taken over by the Occupation for military housing and nicknamed “Washington Heights,” then redeveloped as the Olympic Village site for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
The sparrow does not itself have an imitative name, although it was formerly nicknamed Philip , for its rapid twittering and chirping notes.
Kusama's 1964 affair with Joseph Cornell (documented in Utopia Parkway , Deborah Solomon's recent biography of Cornell) has a peculiar aptness: The man terrified of women--who enclosed movie goddesses and ballerinas in little fantasy boxes and nicknamed Kusama "You-you-I"--meets the woman scared of men.
At the Naval Academy, McCain was nicknamed "Punk," and that's what he is.