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In 1983 he produced an elegant book with the unprepossessing title The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , which both explained and demonstrated certain rules for presenting numerical data in a graphically arresting manner.
The exterior is rather unprepossessing — a sooty Baroque church, hemmed into an undigniﬁed position by the Elizabeth Bridge — but look inside and you can discern much earlier elements in the handsome interior.
The church itself is an unprepossessing reconstruction after a devastating fire of 1771, but the Brancacci Chapel with the great Masaccio frescoes miraculously survived intact.
A meaningless job, which anyone could have done, an undistinguished education, a home like any other in a crushingly ordinary neighborhood, a daily commute, no particular vices, and nothing to speak of in the line of contact sexuality--a white, Anglo-Saxon, middle-class life which, in external respects, was lived by innumerable unmarried sons answerable to family responsibilities, and marked by the lonely longings of a protracted virginity probably not all that unusual at the time, especially when, in Cornell's case, there were no riddling princesses to overcome his natural shyness and unprepossessing looks.
The other church on the square, the bright white Igreja Misericórdia, features a terrific baroque façade but an unprepossessing interior.