Word: nicu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a few weeks in the NICU, Christopher even got moved down the hall to the transitional nursery. Then on Sunday morning he started looking sick: his belly was swelling; he showed signs of a massive infection; and he was sent back to the intensive-care unit...
...DIED. NICU CEAUSESCU, 45, playboy son of executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu; following surgery to stem internal bleeding caused by liver disease; in Vienna...
...Vermont. After the break, the revitalized band showed a renewed commitment to the art of playing music that mattered to them and not to anyone else. Old songs that hadn't been played in years began to show up in their set lists (ok trivia buffs, here they are: "NICU," "Gumbo," "Tube," "Funky Bitch," "Frankenstein," "Letter to Jimmy page" and two weeks before the Great Woods run, "Gamehenge"). At the same time, songs from Hoist were beginning to find a home in the live setting and were no longer a chore to perform. At last the band was back...
...stark photographs are but one glimpse of the anguished land left behind by Nicolae Ceausescu, who put Copsa Mica (pop. 6,000) into industrial overdrive. Situated 150 miles northwest of Bucharest, the town is in the county of Sibiu, which was once governed by the late dictator's son Nicu. Likely to go on trial within the next few months, Nicu could receive life imprisonment if convicted. A more appropriate punishment might be to sentence him to spend the rest of his days in Copsa Mica...
That, says Bucharest lawyer Nicu Teodorescu, 57, is not quite how it happened. Teodorescu, who claims he was called in at the last minute to defend the Ceausescus, told the London Times last week that the end was considerably less dramatic, if no tidier. After the trial, during which they refused to cooperate (Teodorescu tried unsuccessfully to persuade them to plead mental instability), the Ceausescus were taken into the courtyard. "It was a mere quarter-hour or so after the death sentence was pronounced," he says. "They thought they were walking to a cell, when suddenly there was a huge...