C.U.S.P.

The Clean U.S. Party: Johnny Gentle's political vehicle, "the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far-left macrobiotic Save-the-Ozone, -Rain-Forests, -Whales, -Spotted-Owl-and-High-pH-Waterways ponytailed granola-crunchers" (p. 382), a germ-and-waste-phobic movement whose "first platform’s plank had been Let’s Shoot Our Wastes Into Space" (p. 382). Its rise from "the emergence of the fringe C.U.S.P. of Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner" (p. 283) to the White House produces O.N.A.N., Subsidized Time, and the Reconfiguration (see those entries).