Is It Just an X With Another Name? Readers Sound Off on the New NC-17 Movie Rating : <i> The recent change in the movie rating system produced a number of responses. Here are some. : </i>

During the middle 1970s the righteous Times made the pronouncement that it would no longer accept ads for X-rated movies. Now NC-17 is in.

So what does the Times show us in its ads for “Henry & June”? A picture of part of a woman’s tush. At least her garter belt was a simple white, not a sexy black.

WALTER W. STEIN

Los Angeles