Mutha Is Half a Word Mutha Is Half a Word Mutha Is Half A Word is the debut album by American comic and actress LaWanda Page, released in 1971 on the Laff Records label. The comic, born in Ohio and raised in St. Louis, MO as Alberta Peal, used only the first name of her stage name for the duration of her recordings with Laff Records and for the duration of her career as a stand-up comedian, which began in the 1960s after careers as a strip dancer and vaudeville performer. Some of Page's most famous stand-up monologues are included in this album including "The
A Class Divided in their answers, and performed poorly in tests. William Peters became interested in Ms. Elliott after reading an article about her work in "The New York Times" and arranged soon afterward to film the class. The resulting footage would become "The Eye of the Storm", which originally aired on ABC in 1970. Peters was surprised by the change he observed in the children and remarked at how disinterested they were with the cameras, because they were so involved in the exercise that they had no idea they were being filmed. "A Class Divided" picks up the story in August 1984,