The open book rested upon stark black-and-white photographs of the present-day palace.Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr), first viewed faceless and from behind, was summoned from her classroom (where she was instructing young female Indian students in mathematics), to speak to the Reverend Mother.He boasted immodestly that he was a multi-talented, top-notch reporter, who was capable of creating news by ""biting a dog"" (a prophetic, allegorical description of the depths he would descend to in getting a news-story)." While horoughly inspecting the duplex, the Wienie King wanders up the curving staircase to the bedroom upstairs." Mildred doesn""t believe that her "gentle and kind" husband (whom she divorced four years earlier) would commit such a crime.Her first nightmarish dream was that she gave birth to an Alien, and she was treated with skepticism by Weyland-Yutani Corporation officials and lost her flight officer""s license.