I Love the Smell of Showing Off in the Morning

From the last paragraph of the LAT review of R.W. Apple’s new book Apple’s America, a guidebook aimed at ‘discriminating travelers’ (in other words, rich New Yorkers who are forced occasionally to go to other cities on business)(I did the bold-facing):

Naturally, the first city I looked up was Los Angeles… Reading an outsider’s take on the place where one lives is bound to highlight any shortcomings in the visitor’s account. Yes, we have smog, but efforts to control emissions have improved the air quality from what it was half a century back, despite huge growth in the interim.

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