
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, June 12, 1994                   TAG: 9406230033
SECTION: TRAVEL                    PAGE: F6   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: Christopher Reynolds Los Angeles Times
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A TASTE OF MEMPHIS

Five o'clock on a Tuesday, and the river creeps south along the city's western edge. Graceland expels its masses and closes its ornate gates for the night. Along Front Street, where Tom Cruise's on-screen law office stands in "The Firm," the cotton brokers have finished the day's faxes. The aroma of barbecue rises. In the clubs on Beale Street, the music will soon begin.

But here in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel, it's already show time.

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